Economic Quote by Jason Whitlock

“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there was no…

— Carol Anderson

“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was not completely…

— Adolph L. Reed Jr

“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of all races.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the…

— James Heckman

“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in the South.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of…

— Thomas Sowell

That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South.…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified…

— Henry Giroux

You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a…

— Noam Chomsky

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

— Rand Paul

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins…

— Michelle Alexander

“Although it is common to think of Jim Crow as an explicitly race-based system, in fact a number of the key policies were officially…

— Michelle Alexander